NUMBER OF CHINESE TOURIST VISITS MAY INCREASE STEEPLY – NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN, April 21. /ARKA/. Armenia’s government is to consider,
at its meeting on Saturday, a draft decision that will boost the
number of tourist arrivals from China steeply, Haykakan Zhamanak
(Armenian Time) newspaper said on Tuesday.
Back in July 2014, the Armenian and the Chinese governments signed a
memorandum in Beijing to arrange for Armenia tours for tourist groups
from China.
For this, according to the Chinese laws, Armenia needs to be
included on the Guaranteed Tour Countries list prepared by the
Chinese government.
Armenia was given this status at the end of the last year, and only
a couple of technical issues remain to be solved to start the tours,
the newspaper says. -0–